Thomai Alexiou

Assistant Professor - Department of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics

Dr Thomaï
Alexiou is an Assistant Professor at
the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of English,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She holds an MA
in TEFL from Canterbury Christ Church University and a PhD in Applied
Linguistics from the University of Wales Swansea, UK. She has taught English as
a foreign language for about 10 years in Greece and Britain. She currently
teaches courses in methodology of language teaching, pedagogical foundations in
learning a foreign language, current communicative approaches (at the
undergraduate level) and research methods in applied linguistics (at the
postgraduate level). Since her employment she has been involved in research
projects focusing mainly on issues relating to young and very young learners. She
is also the coordinator of the Module ‘Teaching English to Young Learners’ (at
the postgraduate level) at the Hellenic Open University.

Her research
interests concern cognitive development and individual differences in foreign language
learning for very young learners while her expertise is on early foreign language
learning, methodology of
teaching languages to young learners (preschool and primary education), and material
development for very young learners. She has been invited to give teacher training
seminars and she has published several articles throughout Europe (in journals
and conference proceedings). She has also written and edited textbooks for
children learning English as a foreign language.